No problem, welcome to the forums.
I don't know if they have a Utorrent forum if so you could pose the question there using the info you have gained here and in the thread about Azureus and see if there is some way of achieving this.
You may well get the response it's avast's fault, but other AVs that monitor the email/news ports 25, 110, 119 and 143 could experience the same issues. The ports I mentioned are assigned for email/news usage so if conforming to standards shouldn't be used for other purposes. Unfortunately many don't know this.